(Cloth · 14 Sep 2026)
Inside the Biella mill
A day at the family mill that has woven our coating since 2012.
The mill sits on a river in the foothills of the Alps. The water is soft, which is why wool has been washed here for six centuries.
The looms run at a third of the speed of a modern mill. Slower weaving means less tension on the yarn, and a cloth that keeps its spring for decades.
Our camel cloth is double-faced: two fabrics woven together and then separated by hand, so the coat needs no lining.
“Soft water, slow looms, and a family that has said no to every shortcut for six generations.”
After weaving, the cloth is finished with teasels — real dried thistle heads — that raise the surface into that soft, deep nap.
Every bolt is inspected by eye on a light table, metre by metre. A single flaw and the whole bolt becomes lining for our own atelier.
It takes four weeks from raw fibre to finished cloth. We buy the whole run, every season, before a single coat is sold.
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